Species Brunotartessus ianthe (Kirkaldy, 1907)

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Regional Maps

• Tartessus ianthe Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [47].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM sex. quantity unknown (coll.: vii.1904), Brisbane, Queensland; BPBM sex, quantity unknown (coll.: vii-viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland
  Comment: The type series contains both sexes but which came from which locality is unknown.

 

Generic Combinations

• Brunotartessus ianthe (Kirkaldy, 1907). —
  Evans, F. 1981. The Tartessinae of Australia, New Guinea and some adjacent Islands (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Pacific Insects 23(1-2): 112-188 [131]

 

Introduction

This pale brown species is mainly distributed in eastern parts of Queensland although it extends south to the New South Wales north coast and there is a single record in the J.W. Evans collection from Lake Argyle in NE Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

Pale sordid yellowish; vertex, pronotum and anterior two thirds of scutellum closely spotted with pale yellowish, these spots being clearly but not deeply punctured. Face pale yellowish, obscurely marked with brownish. Pronotum and scutellum fuscate (sometimes the former on the disk only). Tegmina pale yellowish hyaline, immaculate, basal veins pale, apical ones subferruginous, appendix fuscate. Sterna and sternites mostly pale. Tergites blackish along the middle, pale laterally. Head rounded, nearly as long in the middle as laterally. Crossveins on brachial vein and in subcostal cell, straight; subapical cells extending apicallv about equally far, or the third not quite so far as the others; subcostal cell apical of the crossvein subparallel laterally, apically oblique. Male: valve practically obsolete, plates not unlike [Neotartessus] flavipes. Female: genital segments fulvescent above, varyingly coloured beneath; last sternite strongly produced, apically acute, strongly carinate longitudinally, pygophor elongate (with yellowish bristles), about as long as the ovipositor. Length (male) 8 (female) 11 mm. (Kirkaldy 1907).

 

Diagnosis References

Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [47]

 

History of changes

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